A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, and rising volcanic gases.
In a worst-case scenario, those signals could culminate in a VEI 8 eruption that blasts ash tens of kilometers into the atmosphere, unleashes deadly pyroclastic flows, buries parts of the western United States in ash, and cripples transportation, electricity, water systems, agriculture, and communications across much of North America…
Source: ScienceDaily | Tsunamis
ScienceDaily | Tsunamis
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- One of Earth’s most powerful supervolcanoes is refilling with fresh magma
- A rock plunged 90 kilometers into Earth and revealed something unexpected
- A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and unleashed a 330-foot tsunami
- Alaska’s monster tsunami sent water 1,580 feet up a mountain
- Something strange is happening beneath a volcano near 2 million people
- Scientists discover a surprising twist in Japan's 7,300-year-old volcanic apocalypse
- Scientists find an “earthquake gate” as California fault stress hits a 1,000-year high
- Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest
- The “big one” might not come alone: Two major West Coast faults may strike back to back
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